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* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
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Single word	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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Cophixalus ornatus (Fry, 1912)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Asterophryinae > Genus: Cophixalus > Species: Cophixalus ornatus

Austrochaperina ornata Fry, 1912, Rec. Aust. Mus., 9: 91. Holotype: AMS R222 according to Cogger, 1979, Rec. Aust. Mus., 32: 178. Type locality: "twenty-five miles inland from Cairns, North-east Queensland", Australia. See Zweifel, 1962, Am. Mus. Novit., 2113: 6, for definition of the type locality and type specimen.

Phrynixalus reginae Andersson, 1916, K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl., 52: 4. Syntypes: NHRM 1615 (4 specimens), 1616, MCZ 17805, BMNH 1929.5.17.1, 4 others not located by Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 53). Type locality: "ten from Malanda in the jungles" and "one from Cedar Creek", Queensland, Australia. Synonymy by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 173; Zweifel, 1962, Am. Mus. Novit., 2113: 6; confirmed by Hoskin, 2012, Zootaxa, 3271: 12.

Sphenophryne ornata — Nieden, 1926, Das Tierreich, 49: 48.

Cophixalus ornatus — Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 173. Zweifel, 1962, Am. Mus. Novit., 2113: 6.

Phrynomantis ornata — Loveridge, 1935, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 78: 7, 55.

Asterophrys ornata — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 418.

Common Names

Ornate Nursery Frog (Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 211).

Common Nursery-Frog (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 222).

Ornate Rainforest Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 89).

Ornate Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 366; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 106).

Northern Ornate Nursery-frog (Hoskin, 2012, Zootaxa, 3271: 12).

Distribution

Carbine Tableland (north to Mount Spurgeon), Macalister Range, Kuranda area, Lamb Range, northern Atherton Tablelands and western slope of Mount Bartle Frere. The southern extent of the distribution on the Atherton Tablelands is approximately a line between Mount Baldy (near Atherton) and Butchers Creek at least as far south as: Mount Baldy, Lake Eacham, Gadgarra Forest Reserve, Malanda, Butchers Creek, Gourka Road and the western slope of Mount Bartle Frere, 330–1100 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

Hoskin, 2012, Zootaxa, 3271: 1–16, redlimited the species and provided a detailed account, including a redescription of the holotype. Previous literature under this name also refers to populations now included in Cophixalus australis and Cophixalus hinchinbrookensis. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 211–212, provided a brief account, photograph, and polygon distribution map. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 10, provided a polygon distribution map.

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